The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution. Inspired by these natural ...

There is a staggering amount of plastic waste — an estimated 2.6 million tons — floating around our oceans right now. India’s government recently took steps to curb the ever-worsening plastic waste ...

An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have created a robotic fish that doesn’t just collect plastic pollution; ...

A robot fish called "Robo-Fish" has been created after winning a robotics contest at the University of Surrey, as reported by Interesting Engineering. Robotic fishes swim in a water glass tank ...

Imagine if there were a robotic fish that filtered microplastic particles out of the water as it swam. Well, now there is one, and it's the physical version of the winning concept in the first-ever ...

A University of Adelaide study shows industry players are open to measures to reduce plastics in seafood – but first they have to understand the problem. More than 35 percent of fish caught in the ...

Last summer, beer company Corona piloted its first Plastic Fishing Tournament in Mexico, paying local anglers to go out into the seas not to catch fish, but to retrieve plastic waste. Now, the idea, ...

Editor’s note: This is the third entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, second and fourth stories here. Thirsty? Would ...

Daniel Dennison/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing ...

Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in rivers, ...